7 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 13:03, updated 11 h ago

আইজিপির বক্তব্যের ব্যাখ্যা দিল পুলিশ হেডকোয়ার্টার্স

police headquarters explains inspector general's statement

Photo: Sarabangla.net

Article analysis

5out of 10

Band BLocalised faults

Sarabangla.net13:41Neutral

Relays a police headquarters clarification verbatim, without the IGP's original remarks, the contested media reports or any journalist or rights perspective, so the police framing goes unchallenged.

Seven of the seven outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.

The faults are local; the reporter's narration stays descriptive.

Read the original See the working

1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning

The same event, one framing

The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.

Neutral 7 of 7

ক্রসফায়ার নিয়ে আইজিপির বক্তব্যের যে ব্যাখ্যা দিল পুলিশ সদরদপ্তর

Dainik Amader Shomoy13:03

How the 5 was worked out

The model answers seven fixed questions from 0 to 3 and cites evidence for each. The score is calculated from the answers in code, so any disagreement points to one question.

G1
Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.
0
G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.
0
G3
Other side missingThe other side is absent, with no sign a response was sought. Evidence 2
3
G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationPolicy criticism or disagreement. Evidence 2
1
G5
Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.
0
G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 1
1
G7
Missing contextMissing context materially changes the reading. Evidence 2 3
2

Evidence

1Source selectionReporter voice

পুলিশের বক্তব্য নিম্নরূপ

The article reproduces a police headquarters statement verbatim with no independent sources or corroboration.

2CoverageReporter voice

তিনি বিচারবহির্ভূত হত্যাকাণ্ড বা বিচারিক প্রক্রিয়ার বাইরে শাস্তি প্রদানের লক্ষ্যে “ক্রসফায়ার” শব্দটি উল্লেখ করেননি।

The police interpretation of the IGP's remarks is given without the original quote, the media reports or the journalists criticised.

3Cherry pickingReporter voice

১৭৬টি হামলার ঘটনা ঘটেছে

Attack statistics are framed to justify police self-defence, with no figures on deaths in police custody or crossfire.

4OpinionatedParaphrased source voice· not scored

পেশাদারত্ব ও নিরপেক্ষতার সাথে দায়িত্ব পালনে প্রতিশ্রুতিবদ্ধ

This self-praise belongs to the police statement and is not the paper's own narration.

Show the calculation

S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 3 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 7
G1 = 0, below 2: not band D
Not band C or A: band B
Band B: S ≤ 3 gives 3, 4 to 6 gives 4, 7 or more gives 5. Score 5

Every headline, in order

About this method

Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. This analysis was made by claude-opus-5-5 on rubric 1.0.0. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.

What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.

Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.

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